Mond has only directed one film, the indie character study James White, which was good enough to make the cut at the most recent Sundance film festival (though what does it say about the maturity of the contemporary American male that Mond’s film, which focused on a thirtysomething guy with an aging terminally parent, can be described as a “coming-of-age” story?). Mond’s ability to get the interior life of his character on screen, which he demonstrated in James White, should serve him well in Jake Ellis, which features an ex-agent who is tormented by a connection to a ghostly presence that could be entirely mental.
Deadline reports that Chernin, perhaps in admiration of the current box office success of Jason Bourne, is now calling the film Jake Ellis.
